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Twitter Transparency Report Shows Government Requests For User Data

Source: Huffington Post | Nation | July 3, 2012

For the first time ever Twitter has issued a transparency report card that sheds light on how often it's been asked by government officials to delete tweets and hand over user information -- and how frequently the social media site has complied.

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